Really like this version
Enjoy the listen...
The making of Beat was a fraught experience compared to the ease with which Discipline had appeared the previous year. Short on material, the Crims had to use ideas that hadn’t been tried out or run in while the band was out on the road as they had done with pieces like Neil, Jack And Me, or Neurotica.
Minus the drums, this stripped-back version enables the listener to get deep into the slightly unsettling sound world being conjured up here, especially the striking Belew solo in the middle. “I don’t play a note in the solo, not a single note, it’s just a horrid machine-like, rats scratching their claws on a chalk board, sound,” he told Guitar magazine. “There is so much of a noise element in it, also because I have a harmoniser tuned a half-step down, and I’m beating on the guitar with a metallic slide.”
Minus the drums, this stripped-back version enables the listener to get deep into the slightly unsettling sound world being conjured up here, especially the striking Belew solo in the middle. “I don’t play a note in the solo, not a single note, it’s just a horrid machine-like, rats scratching their claws on a chalk board, sound,” he told Guitar magazine. “There is so much of a noise element in it, also because I have a harmoniser tuned a half-step down, and I’m beating on the guitar with a metallic slide.”
